WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
HUNS OFFER PEACE ALLIES MADE TARGET PLEDGES HUGE ARMY
To
Keep
However; Holsheviki Declare Kntente Attempted Congress Aaked for l a i t Man to Win
to Interfere in Russian A ffairs—
War
Department Now Able to
ia Report —Hal four Denies.
Recall o f Consuls Aaked.
Handle 8.200,000 Recruits.
Austria
Alsace-Lorraine,
to
Make
Coneeaaiona,
London Germany’s peace emissary,
according to the Daily Mail, has been
busily working here, but has made
no progress in any direction. There is
reason to believe, it says, that the
German agent, who has been report
ed to be a Dutch financier, returns to
FAB OVER TOP
Moscow Foreign Minister Tchitch-
Washington, I). C. Secretary Baker
erin has addressed the representatives carried to congress Thursday the army
in Moscow o f the United States, Eng
land and
France,
requesting
the increase« program mapped out by Presi
speedy recall o f their consuls at Vladi dent Wilson and his advisers und bused
vostok, and an investigation o f their on the determination to win the war,
alleged participation in negotiations i f it takes the whole man power o f
said to have been conducted between
the Nation to do it. There arc indica
the Pekin embassies o f the powers
Germany to report that there is noth named ami the Siberian autonomous tions that he w ill ask that all restric
ing doing.
tions on the number o f troop* to I k *
government.
A Central News dispatch from The
They are asked to define their atti raised be removeu ami the government
Hague says the Dutch intermediary is tude towanl the soviet government
Events o f Noted People, Governments reported to be Jonkheer Colyn, former and explain what the minister refers authorized to mobilize as many men ns Official Estimates Place Number o f
minister o f war.
to as the attempts o f their representa it can equip, train and send to the bat
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Hubscribers at Over 1 .'1,000,000
The proposals made by Jonkheer tives to interfere with the internal tle front in France.
Colyn, the dispatch reports, are said life o f Russia.
Things Worth Knowing.
Delaware Doubles tjuota.
Secrteary Baker is expected to dis
there to have been as follows:
M. Tchitcherin submitted copies o f close that the department has reason
1. Germany to renounce all claims the documents^cized on the person o f
to believe it can handle during the
in the west.
M. Kolodoff, a member in Vladivostok
Two women spies, Josephine A lvar
2. Restoration o f Belgium.
Washington, I). C .- For the third
o f the Siberian autonomous govern- present year at least double the exist
ez and Victoria Faucher, ctAylemned
8. Alsace-Lorraine to be autono- ' merit who recently was arrested, which ing force under arm s‘ o f appoxiamtely time within a year the American peo
to death by courtmartial January 25, mous, within the German federation. the minister declares “ establishes in-
1,600,00» men.
That would mean a ple have heavily over-aubscribed a war
at Nantes, France, were executed
4. The status in the east to remain controvertibly that the consular repre
total
o
f
3,200,000
soldiers for whom credit.
Tuesday morning.
as at present.
sentatives o f Great Britain, France
As the third liberty loan was closing
clothing,
equipment
and trar.s|s>rtation
5.
Austria
to
make
certain
conces-
i
and America participated in the plot,
A Reuter dispatch from Tokio says
Should additional Saturday
night, the Treasury an
and that the diplomatic representa are now in sight.
that the Russian authorities at Irkutsk sions to Italy in the Trentino.
have arrested the Japanese vice consul | 6. Balkan question to be solved by 1 tives o f those powers in Pekin negoti facilities become available, however, nounced the campaign had !>een “ an
and another prominent official on the 11,1 international conference,
ated with the counter revolutionary it is indicated that President Wilson overwhelming success.”
charge o f being military spies.
!
'• A ll colonial questions affecting organization calling itself thp “ Siber wishes to lie able to call out more men
Although $3,000,000,000 was the
without delaying to seek authority.
A frica and Asia Minor to be settled by ian governm ent.”
May 6 was the hottest in the history a conference o f all the belligerents,
The
President's
war
cabinet
met
formal
goal o f the campaign, official
(These reported negotiations have
o f the New York City weather bureau.
g. Germany to abandon all claims previously been declared in Bolshevik with him Wednesday at the White reports, including only a small propor-
A t mid-afternoon, the official thermo-
her form er Chinese protectorate of quarters to have been projected with a House and went over the ground thor
meter registered 84, breaking by four j£jao Chau, but in exchange to receive view to the recognition o f Siberia by oughly.
Sec to ary Baker remained tion o f Saturday’s avalanche o f
degrees the record established on May certain economic concessions in China. the allied powers. )
more that an hour with the Preisdent pledges, showed the total as $3,203,-
after
the other member* o f the war 655,400, and there were indications
6, 1896.
| Jonkheer Colyn came to England
M. Tchitcherin also addressed to the
that the aggregate would lie increased,
A thousand young women, students last week at the head o f a mission Japanese representative in Moscow a cabinet had left.
In the house Chairman Dent, o f the
at high schools and colleges in New whose purpose was said to be to ex communication stating that the letters
to nearly $4,000,000,000 when banks
York City, raised about |50,000 for plain to the British the difficulties taken from M. Kolodoff establish the m ilitary committee, introduced a bill have time to tabulate the multitude o f
the relie f o f Belgian babies by selling caused by Germany’s demand on Hol extensive participation o f Japanese that would authorize the mobilization last-minute applications.
forget-me-nots Tuesday. Nearly 400,- land concerning the transfer o f Ger officials in the counter-revolutionary and organization o f 4,000,000 selective
The ’ exact result o f the campaign
man materials across Holland to Bel movement, notwithstanding repeated service men, instead o f the 1,000,000
000 purchased the flowers.
probably
w ill not be known until late
to
which
the
government
is
limited
by
gium.
| official assurances o f non-interference
Roberto Boring, aged 21 years, died
the existing act. Mr. Dent said the in the week.
Foreign Secretary Balfour told the | with the internal life o f Russia.
in Stockton, Cal., Tuesday from the house o f commons Monday that no ’
Official estimates placed the number
“ Such actions," continues the com* measure was his own and he had not o f subscribers lit betw een 13.000.0M)
effects o f an onslaught from a viciqus peace offers had been made recently
consulted
the
War
department
on
it.
I munication, “ prompt us now to clarify
gamecock in the yard o f her parents. by the enemy. He added:
Under the new classification scheme and 15,000,000 far above the lo.ooo,-
J in a manner beyond doubt the position
The beak o f the fowl penetrated to the
000 o f the second loan or the 4,500,-
“ There is no representative o f a o f the Tokio cabinet regarding the there are understood to be 1,800,000
000 o f the first.
base o f the skull, injuring the brain.
men
immediately
available
for
active
neutral nation in this country who has government o f the Russian federated
Some officials expressed the ladief
E. J. Purcell, American railway en made tentative or informal sugges republic and to, ask in particular i f the m ilitary service in class 1. That esti
that the roll o f bond buyers would be
mate
is
based
on
the
returns
o
f
numer
gineer, who was captured and robbed tions o f peace negotiations.”
Japanese government intends in the
even greater. To them this was one
by a band o f Chinese bandits in the in
futqre to support the counter-revolu ous states and the law o f averages. It o f the encouraging features o f the
excludes
all
men
rated
as
fit
only
for
Rome—
No
favorable
occasion
for
a
terior o f China last month, arrived at
tionary elements in Russia or wishes
loan.
a Pacific port Tuesday from the Orient, further peace move by Pope Benedict immediately to institute a public in limited special servicq, all delinquents,
A ll 12 Federal Reserve districts,
slated
for
immediate
induction
into
has
presented
itself,
nor
does
one
accompanied by his w ife and three
vestigation o f the activities o f some
which
were the largest campaign
seem near, it was stated at the V ati o f its agents, recall those incrimin class 1 when apprehended, and alt o f
children.
can when inquiry was made there re ated and g iv e definite instructions to the so-called remedial cases, the men units, oversubscribed, and a majority
Miss Anna Held, an actress, who is
garding the report that his holiness the others. In the contrary event, the who w ill be fit for active service after o f the states made the same record.
critically ill with anaemia in’ New
Delaware doubled its quota.
would make a new peace offer on W hit government o f the Russian federated operations or medical treatment to
York, has undergone an operation for Sunday.
Bond selling continued actively in
correct minor physical defects.
republic w ill have to take the meas
transfusion o f blood, which had an im
many cities up to a late hour and
Behind
that
also
stand
the
men
who
ures used against Russian counter-rev
mediate good effect. Ernest Lane, a
have reached 21 years sine« the draft
"t*yed open in a final effort to
olutionary citizens.”
motor truck driver, volunteered to
act was passed and who w ill be brought ro UP rnor,! subscriptions than the $4,-
H i « /..in «oil _# t^e aecon<| liberty loan
give his blood.
in under pending amendments. Prob 616.000,000 of
ably the total o f effectives in class 1 last October.
Mrs. La Mira V. Kendig, said to Hope Each Day W’ill Bring Decision —
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED
FOR YOU
Nearly Four Billions Subscribed
by American People.
LAST DAY IS RECORD
HUN CIVILIANS SEE NO PEACE
ALLIES ADVANCE AT YPRES
will prove to be 2,500,000 men when
have been a motion picture actress,
Speak o f Battle as Wicked.
the definite figures are available.
was found shot dead Monday in her
W ith the British Arm y in France, High Ground Retaken to Depth o f 500
This is the first reservoir from
home, in Los Angeles, after Patrolman
Yards Rains Hinder Huns.
which men w ill be drawn to fill up the
G. L. Stowe had staggered out with a Sunday— Interesting comments by Ger
British Headquarters in France
new arimes. It is conceivable that Army W ill Need 15 Billions to Carry
bullet wound in his head, probably fa man civilians have been furnished from
an enemy mail bag captured by the Franco-British forces, in the course o f class 1 w ill lie exhausted in time, but
on War Next Fiscal Year.
tally wounded.
British on a section o f the Flanders a successful operation between Ix>cre not that it would fa il to furnish all the
Washington,
I). ('. Simultaneously
Alexander Effman, private in the front. Almost without exception, ref and Drancourt, advanced their jx>si-
men who can be shipped to Frnnce be , with the announcement Saturday that
Provisional Squadron, U. S. Signal erences are made in the letters to the tions on a 1000-yard front to an aver
fore congress meets again. For this 233,000 men from 45 states had been
Corps, was accidentally killed on the stoppage o f leave and the parcel post age depth o f 500 yards Sunday.
The reason it is regarded as probable that called to join the bolors in May, Secre
south beach near Newport, Or., Tues from the front. The tone is resigned British took 48 prisoners and the
the question o f increasing age limits tary Buker indicated the scop«« o f the
day, while engaged in railroad work. rather than recalcitrant.
One letter | French captured 32.
o f the draft act or o f drawing upon government’s plans f«ir increasing the
Effman was caught beneath a falling from Berlin dated A pril 25 said:
The enemy was driven from two or class 2 can be deferred until congress fighting forces by stating that con-
tree and crushed.
“ Peace does not seem to be coming three ruined farms and the allies took again convenes.
, gress had lieen asked to appropriate
A ll this some high ground near Koutkot.
A wounded British airman back in along, as we fondly hoped.
approximately $15,000,000,000 for the
The French, continuing their opera
London from France reports that the in the West is too wicked for any
army for the next fiscal year.
That
thing.
W
e
hope
every
day
it
will
tion, carried some strongly-held build
squadron operating in an important
amount is exclusive o f fund* provid<*d
sector on the Amiens front has prob come to a decision and the British ings in the neighboring sector.
in the fortifications bill, which not
A ll the enemy counter efforts were Established Coast Yards to Get Most only cov««rs coast defens«.«s but as a
ably established a record by bringing w ill be driven into the North sea, but
broken up with considerable loss.
down
106 enemy machines in six they stand firm .”
j rule provides the bulk o f heavy field
o f New Order.
“ We have such a scarcity o f shoes
These local successes are o f distinct
weeks, including 21 in one day.
ordnance.
in Ettlingen it is impossible to get value, strengthening the allied de
Washington, D. C. Expansion o f
Last year the army estimates aggre
Fire which started Monday after
them. I f there are any in Belgium fenses o f the approach to Scherpen- the shipbuilding program to provide
gated $6,600,000,000, to pay for a
noon in a warehouse o f the Independent please send me a pair,” says a letter
berg and Mont Rouge.
for the construction o f 200 additional force o f 1,500,000 men, which already
Packing company in North St. Louis, dated in Ettlingen on A pril 26.
Some disorganization is indicated woixlen vessels o f 4500 or 4700 dead has been exceeded.
destroyed five storage houses o f the
“ A re you not coming home on
The call for 250,000 men during
packing company, the Rogers grain soon? How much longer is it leave among the enemy troops, who are hin- w eight tons was announced Thursday
going dered by heavy rains. There is. little by Chairman Hurley, o f the Shipping May goes to all states except Californ
elevator with several hundred thousand to last?” reads a third letter.
doubt but that the new German tanks Board. This w ill increase to 580 the ia, Oregon and Nevada, which, with
bushels o f wheat, the four-story build
A note from Rhumsfringe, dated are proving a disappointment, develop numlier o f wooden ships completed,
the District o f Columbia, already have
ing o f the Union Packing company, A p ril 23, ¡says:
ing various defects in' actual service. building or planned.
supplied so large a part o f their
and a number o f storage sheds.
“ The mustering o f the 1920 class Their ponderous w eight makes maneu
The vessels, which w ill lie either o f quotas that it was decided not to in
The senate postoffice committee re took place here last Friday.
Most o f vering over bad ground difficult. Gen the Dougherty or Ball in type, w ill lie
clude them this time.
fused Tuesday to consider legislation them were accepted.”
really they are much inferior to those constructed in shipyards already estab
The movement in most states will
to suspend or modify increased second-
o f the British.
lished and w ill be allotted, Mr. Hurley begin May 25 anil w ill be completed
class postage rates, which become
Bond Printing Expedited.
said, among yards which are most effi in five days.
effective July 1, and which newspaper
Washington, D. C.— To supply liber
ciently managed.
Mining Profits A re Huge,
By this order the War department
publishers have attacked in connection
ty bonds to subscribers promptly, extra
Consturction o f the ships w ill be abandons the plan o f assembling men
Spokane, Wash. — N et profits o f $2,-
with the pending postoffice appropria shifts o f printers were set to work
413,683 were made by the Bunker Hill started as soon as vessels now building in even monthly increments o f approx
tion bill. Individual senators plan an
Tuesday by the Bureau o f Engraving & Sullivan Mining company in 1917, are off the stocks.
imately 100,000. The call for 150,000
effort later to suspend or reduce the and Printing and it is planned to de
The board aslo decided to authorize in Apri 1 and 233,000 this month w ill
according
to
the
official
report
filed
at
increases.
liver all bonds within two weeks. Wallace. This is besides the -money the construction o f 25 new sea-going bring out in two months half o f the
With scarcely a flicker o f the white About 18,000,000 bonds already have
expended during the year on the smel tugs, increasing to 100 the numlier o f number originally contemplated for
lights to mark their passing, every been printed and more than 10,000,000
ter.
The company reports better such craft now building for the board. the year. Officials made it clear that
cabaret in Chicago officially ended its have been distributed.
ments and repairs totaling $1,056,618, The tugs w ill lie employed in Coast it is now the purpose to mobilize all
existence at 12:01 o’clock Monday
Secretary McAdoo formally announ most o f which was spent on the smel traffic, replacing those diverted over the men for whom equipment anil
night. A t this hour the new ordi ced that he would make allotments o f
ter. This makes the total profits for seas.
training facilities can be provided.
nance divorcing intoxicating liquors all subscriptions in full.
A new American wooden ship con
the year far above $3,000,000 a close
“ L e t us avoid specific figures,” Sec
and entertainment and barring dancing
The total o f subscriptions tabulated second to the profit« o f the Hercules.
struction record was reported to the retary Baker again said.
“ They im
and practically all forms o f amusement by the Treasury department Monday
Shipping Board by the Supple & Baltin ply limits. There is no limit. We
in places where intoxicating liquors night was nearly $3,500,000,000, near
company, o f Portland,
Or., which w ill call out enough men to make vic
Consul at Moscow Dies.
are sold went into effect.
ly $500,000,000 more probably w ill be
Washington, D. C. — The death o f claimed the assembling and placing o f tory certain.
W e w ill call them as
A total o f 113 sick and wounded reported before the total is announced, Maddin Summers, United States consul 79 frames in a new vessel in a total rapidly as they can be trained and
soldiers were returned to the United some time after next Monday.
sent forward.”
general at Moscow, was announced working time o f 44 hours.
States from France in the week ending
Sunday in a cablegram to the State
A p ril 26, the surgeon general’s office
Great Mine Field is Plan.
R od it Souvenirs Deadly.
department. Mr. Summers collapsed
Germans Favor Big Guns.
announces.
London — According to Archibald under the strain o f long months o f
With the American Arm y in France
London A dispatch to the Exchange
The War department was asked to Hurd, in the Daily Telegraph, the area overwork, the message said, and was — Knowing that the Americans are Telegraph from Amsterdam from a
close saloons in Vernon, adjoining Los in the North Sea recently announced ill but one day.
persistent souvenir hunters, the Ger frontier correspondent asserts thnt the
A ngeles on the south, in resolutions by the British government as prohibit
mans in the Toul sectors have been Germans are constructing long range
Roumania Making Peace.
adopted by the Los Angeles city coun ed as dangerous to shipping after May
strewing No Man’s Land with all sorts guns o f the type used in the bombard-
Amsterdam— The delegates o f Rou o f infernal devices. These consist o f ent o f Paris at Seraing, five miles
cil and ordered telegraphed to Wash 15, w ill be the greatest mine field ever
ington. I t was said that Vernon had laid for the special purpose o f foiling mania and the central powers have re electric wires attached to bi lls, hel southwest o f Liege, in Belgium, and
become a menace to soldiers and sail submarines. It w ill embrace 121,782 sumed peace negotiations, a Bucharest mets, rifles and other paraphernalia that they have requistioned the Cock-
ors. Vernon is a small incorported square miles, the base form ing a line dispatch reports. Several o f the out connecting with concealed bombs.
erill works for the purpose.
In a number o f instances American
city, noted for resorts since Los An beween Norway and Scotland, and the standing questions have been settled,
The dispatch says that all the work
geles abolished saloons and limited peak extending northward into the and the conclusion o f the negotiations soldiers have tripped over these and men in the factory have refused to
A rctic circle.
escaped.
is being approached rapidly.
liquor sales.
.
work and w ill be deported this month.
233.000 MORE MEN CALLED
200 WOOD SHIPS ORDERED